space, study, universe

Why Does the Universe Have More Matter Than Antimatter?

An international team of physicists, including researchers at MIT, have reported the first results from an underground experiment designed to answer one of physics most fundamental questions: Why is our universe made mostly of matter and not antimatter? According to theory, the Big Bang should have produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter — the ...

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NASA Finds a Large Amount of Water in an Exoplanet’s Atmosphere

Much like detectives study fingerprints to identify the culprit, scientists used NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to find the “fingerprints” of water in the atmosphere of a hot, bloated, Saturn-mass exoplanet some 700 light-years away. And they found a lot of water. In fact, the planet, known as WASP-39b, has three times as much ...

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Exoplanet of WASP-39b.